Need WAPA panel proposals for SfAA 2024

[Mark Edberg]

Wapistas -- We are going to co-sponsor the 2024 SfAA meetings in Santa Fe. This will be a great opportunity to raise WAPA's profile and showcase the work and thinking of WAPA members. What we need are five total panel or roundtable proposals. We already have one dedicated to the memory of Charlie Cheney. I am attaching another possible proposal (please respond if interested). More are welcome!

Mark Edberg, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor and Center Director

Department of Prevention and Community Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health 
Secondary Appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
(202) 994-3584

[Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts]

Hi Mark and everyone else who's on this mailing list,

I'M NOT IP TO PUTTING together a presentation or regular session.  But I have been thinking about a roundtable discussion on WAPA and why  anthro could use more LPOS.

For all its shortcomings, WAPA brings people in practice together,  it assumes that its members are involved in anthropology in action, and it helps bring us together around local (more or less) issues and concerns.  It helps us network around career opportunities, shared problems, and questions about resources pretty much throughout the DMV.  At least I think it's what we're trying to do.  The SfAA and AAA are fine but the really don't focus as much on the anthropologist working in practice settings, and they can't help us function within our regional contexts the way an LPO can.  I wonder why there are not more LPO's and what others think about these questions.

So, Mark, and everyone else reading this, what are your thoughts?  Is there any interest in pursuing this?

Thanks,

Suzanne

Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts MA, PhD, MSW

Adjunct Professor 

Department of Anthropology

UMD, College Park

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[Mark Edberg]

I say we do it! And, we need 5 roundtables or panels to be a co-sponsor, and it will really be in our best interest to do that.

Mark Edberg, Ph.D., M.A.
Professor and Center Director

Department of Prevention and Community Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health 
Secondary Appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
(202) 994-3584